Transform your business with Cisco Network Fabric. (6:31 min)
Increase Productivity and Control Costs
Businesses worldwide are increasingly turning
to their networks to enable increased productivity and cost control.
Cisco’s Network Fabric provides a strategy
for transforming businesses to meet these goals with a vision of long-term
sustainability. The three tenets of Cisco Network Fabric are:
Virtualization, to simplify operations, reduce network costs,
and maximize existing investments
Collaboration, to increase
productivity by overcoming the barriers of location, distance, and
time
Operations,
to automate network services, energy control and minimize total cost of
ownership (TCO)
IPv6 and IPv4 features will be packaged to provide IPv6 and IPv4 feature parity, starting with Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(33)SXI for the Catalyst 6500.
The new Supervisor 6L-E is a high performance,
basic Layer 3 extension to the Catalyst 4500 series enabling rich media
Collaboration, energy and operational efficiency in the wiring closet.
The Supervisor 6L-E provides an entry level E-series supervisor which is
ideal for enterprise wiring closest deployments that require scalability,
non-stop communications and investment protection.
Key Architecture Highlights:
Scalability: 24Gbps per slot, 280 Gbps capacity and 225 mpps
performance
Power over Ethernet Plus: Supports 802.3af PoE and
PoEP, up to 30watts per port
Investment Protection: E-Series and
Classic linecard support
Save costs with virtualization beyond the data center. (3:28 min)
Meet Today’s Cost Challenges
Network, services, and desktop virtualization provide
opportunities to maximize IT return on investments while reducing both IT
capital and operational costs.
Network virtualization allocates physical resources
logically, allowing you to consolidate disparate networks over a single IP
network.
One-to-many reduces costs by reducing equipment duplication and
management complexities.
Many-to-one increases operational efficiency
by providing a single point of management, higher resiliency and effective
bandwidth utilization.
Services virtualization allows service devices
to be segmented into many logical devices, each of which can be separately
configured and managed. This reduces the number of physical devices required,
significantly reducing the cost and complexity of management.
Enable collaboration and increase productivity with Cisco Network Fabric. (4:40 min)
Effectively Collaborate Across Global Teams and Functions
Collaboration strategies are offering the next
wave of opportunity for productivity and transformation. Businesses that
succeed in improving collaboration achieve the ability to increase productivity,
gain competitive advantage, achieve faster time to market and enhance their
ability to manage globally-dispersed teams.
Medianet, mobility, and unified communications
use the network as a platform to help people connect, communicate and collaborate
from any device, anywhere, at any time.
Medianet helps optimize the network for video applications
and deliver business quality user experiences for collaboration technologies
such as Cisco TelePresence, desktop video, and video on demand.
Mobility technologies strive to architect the network for wired and wireless solutions that provide consistent and secure access to corporate applications from anywhere at anytime.
Unified Communications helps increase employee
productivity and streamline business processes with flexible, scalable communications
systems.
To enable these network-centric collaboration applications,
businesses must establish a network platform that provides delivery optimization,
resiliency, scalability, and security.
Save costs through operational network and energy efficiencies. (5:24 min)
Generate Steady, Long-Term Returns
The network platform is a strategic investment.
Like any investment, the objective is to uncover strategies to generate
steady and high long-term returns. Three key ways to maximize returns are:
Automation: Cisco IOS provides built-in capabilities to automate day-to-day
network operations dramatically improves IT staff efficiency and providing
faster network services to end users.
Energy Sustainability: New innovations on Cisco Switches provide
effective energy management and control at both the switch level and
by extending the intelligence of the network to devices connected to the
network as exemplified by Cisco EnergyWise technology. Evaluating and Enhancing Green Practices with Cisco Catalyst Switching
Learn more about EnergyWise
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Incremental changes enhance the value of the investment while reducing
the total cost of ownership over time. Platform longevity, extensible
hardware designs, Cisco IOS® Software services, validated designs and platform
scalability all extend the service life of Cisco Catalyst networks. Network Fabric White Papers
Cisco and Partner Services for Campus Success
As you adopt new technologies to transform
your business, we can help you with:
Planning and design services that align technology with your business
goals to increase the accuracy, speed, and efficiency of deployment.
Technical
services to help maintain operational health, strengthen software application
functionality, solve performance issues, and lower expenses.
Optimization
services designed to continually improve performance and help your team
succeed with new technologies.
Routing and Switching Services
Use the enterprise network as a strategic asset through effective architecture,
deployment, and operations.
Unified Communications Services
Deploy a secure, resilient Cisco Unified Communications solution, enabling
powerful ways to collaborate with co-workers, partners, and customers
across any workspace.
Wireless LAN Services
Deploy or migrate to a Cisco Unified Wireless Network solution and integrate
a variety of secure wireless network solutions, technologies, and strategies.
Security Services
Deploy and operate network platforms that defend critical business processes
against attack and disruption, protect privacy, and support policy and
regulatory compliance controls.
Technical Services
Help ensure that your Cisco products and network operate efficiently
and benefit from the most up-to-date system and application software.
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